] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp., the largest U.S.
] cable company, on Thursday said it would buy TechTV, the
] cable channel devoted to the technology industry, from
] Vulcan Programing for an estimated $300 million in a move
] to boost the subscriber base of its video game channel.

Now maybe there will be 24 hours worth of programming between the
two of them!

Comcast to buy TechTV, merge it with G4

] FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open
] extension to CGI that provides high performance without
] the limitations of server specific APIs. See the docs for
] more details.

Persistent processes. I'd never heard of this before.

FastCGI

] CircleID: You have been quoted in the media saying "This
] is War" in reference to the VeriSign vs. ICANN lawsuit.
] And it sounds like in this war there will be causalities
] -- regardless of which direction results of the lawsuit
] go. Could you elaborate on any specific dangers that may
] lie ahead?
]
] Jonathan Weinberg: What I meant was that up until now,
] VeriSign and ICANN have maintained a facade of
] cooperation -- they may not have liked each other, but
] they had to live with each other. VeriSign has now
] dropped the facade. There are dangers a-plenty. If
] VeriSign should win this lawsuit, it will be empowered to
] make unilateral changes in the COM and NET registries
] that will be harmful to the DNS as a whole. If ICANN
] should prevail, it may be emboldened to extend regulation
] and micro-management far beyond where they're warranted.
] The most likely possibility is that the parties will
] settle, and we'll continue going down to hell in a
] hand-basket, much as we've been all along.

More details of the messy contractual relationship between V$
and ICANN.

CircleID: Did ICANN Over Regulate VeriSign?

] From the first U.S. copyright statute in 1790 until the
] Copyright Act of 1976, the U.S. had a conditional
] copyright system that limited copyright protection to
] those who took affirmative steps to claim it.
]
] Our tradition of conditional copyright stands in stark
] contrast to what we have today — an unconditional system
] that grants copyright protection whether or not an author
] desires it.

aka abandonware ... check out eldred.cc for more info on this and their proposed Public Domain Enhancment Act that would require
copyrights to be renewed for $1 every 50 years just to keep track
of who holds them to avoid this orphaned-works mess.

Lessig and Copyright renewal...

] MARCH 23, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A spam e-mail operation
] that sent out e-mails falsely claiming to be from PayPal
] or America Online Inc., tricking hundreds of consumers
] into entering their credit card, banking and user account
] information on fake PayPal and AOL Web sites, has been
] stopped by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal
] Trade Commission.

Yay.

Fake PayPal, AOL spam operations stopped by FTC, DOJ - Computerworld

]
] JERSEY CITY, March 22 - Addressing concerns that
] terrorists could bring nuclear weapons or traditional
] explosives into the country in containerized cargo,
] federal customs officials said Monday that New York and
] New Jersey ports would be the first to have technology to
] scan every truck leaving American ports.

Truck Scanners Coming to All Port Terminals

This is what I've been saying all along: as "convenient" as unique
namespaces seem to be, they are a disaster in situations
where there's no "real-world" top of the hierarchy for the arbiter to sit upon. This is exactly what we have with WIPO, ICANN, etc.

The best unique ID is a big random number, i.e. a key.

Get Out of My Namespace

] POPFile is an automatic mail classification tool. Once
] properly set up and trained, it will scan all email as it
] arrives and classify it based on your training. You can
] give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or
] a complicated one

Since I've started playing with Bayesian spam filters, the following
occured to me: generalize it into an n-way classifier (spam filter
would be 2-way) so, e.g. if you have a help@ address, it will
automatically file mail for webmaster, postmaster, news admin,
accounts admin, etc.

This package isn't quite the right answer but I'm glad to see that
I'm not the only person to have this idea. Might be worth pestering
the dspam/crm114 people to think about adding this.

POPFile -- Automatic Email Classification

] VeriSign says it will combine Unimobile technology with
] its own services to offer a new set of short message
] service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS) and
] secure content delivery capabilities. The combination of
] technologies will also enhance messaging
] interoperability, as it will enable connections to more
] than 300 carriers around the world, VeriSign says.

VeriSign acquires Unimobile - 2004-03-22 - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

] VeriSign's WCNAM Delivery solution allows wireless
] carriers to deliver to their customers' handsets inbound
] calling parties' names and phone numbers. VeriSign's
] solution mirrors enhanced caller ID that has penetrated
] more than 40 percent of the wireline market at an average
] feature charge in excess of $7.35 per month. The solution
] is a significant advancement over the status quo, whereby
] consumers must program names and numbers into their
] handsets in order to identify callers.

VeriSign Wireless Calling Name (WCNAM) Delivery Solution Approved for Interoperability with Nortel Networks CDMA and TDMA Wireless Infrastructure